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[Boulder]

The settings in the two encodes are totally different. For example, aq-mode 1 vs 2 can make a huge difference in the final bitrate.

[cypher007]

Originally Posted by Boulder

The settings in the two encodes are totally different. For example, aq-mode 1 vs 2 can make a huge difference in the final bitrate.

ah that probably explains the difference. wonder why these sort of options are not visible in the interface of both programs?

[TDS]

Originally Posted by cypher007

ah that probably explains the difference. wonder why these sort of options are not visible in the interface of both programs?

So kinda like I said, it's the differences between the apps, if you stick with one, then that's it, but when you start "comparing" them, inevitably there will be some significant differences.

When you learn a bit more about RipBot, you will soon realise that you can change a LOT of settings, either using custom scripts, and custom x265 commands.

When using Distributed Encoding, you will be able to view all the settings that the app is using to do the encode, in the Encoder Server "window". That can also be beneficial in knowing what x265 commands can be added, changed, etc, etc.

Chances are, if you studied & compared the MediaInfo data, (as Boulder mentioned) and matched RB with Vidcoder (at least as far as x265 commands are concerned) you may get a LOT closer results.

Also, maybe you give this a shot with the FPS issues you're having :-

http://avisynth.nl/index.php/FPS#ChangeFPS

ChangeFPS(25000, 1000)

[Yopen71]

Hello. Are there any limitations in the ripbot264 on the use of the cpu? To be specific I can't use the full power of my cpu and gpu .The cpu used during encoding is no more than 22%




Edit: Second pass is no more than 46%

[cypher007]

Originally Posted by Yopen71

Hello. Are there any limitations in the ripbot264 on the use of the cpu? To be specific I can't use the full power of my cpu and gpu .The cpu used during encoding is no more than 22%




Edit: Second pass is no more than 46%

are you using windows 10? i had a similar issue and its the way the thread scheduler works in win 10. i did fix it and post in this thread but it was a bit of fafing about so just use win 11 instead. it only affects the newer Hybrid CPU's like 12th gen+

[Yopen71]

Originally Posted by cypher007

are you using windows 10? i had a similar issue and its the way the thread scheduler works in win 10. i did fix it and post in this thread but it was a bit of fafing about so just use win 11 instead. it only affects the newer Hybrid CPU's like 12th gen+

Going to Win 11 is not a solution. It's still very buggy. It's not worth it because of a program to change entire Windows.Maybe there have a solution in win 10?

[Atak_Snajpera]

Workaround
1) disable fast first pass option
2) activate distributed encoding mode with 2 local active encoding servers. Chuck size set to 0. encoding servers priority set to variable.

This should help with CPU usage.

[Yopen71]

Originally Posted by Atak_Snajpera

Workaround
1) disable fast first pass option
2) activate distributed encoding mode with 2 local active encoding servers. Chuck size set to 0. encoding servers priority set to variable.

This should help with CPU usage.

Thanks for your answer,but actually is little bit unclear for me cuz I'm new ripbot user.
1) disable fast first pass option -you mean to encode in one pass cbr ?
2) activate distributed encoding mode with 2 local active encoding servers. - As far as I know Ripbot264 use Distributed Encoding Mode for connection between several PCs and I have only one PC. Sorry I'm just confused.

Edit:Opss Understand:

[caphp]

Hi Yopen71,
because you are using an i5-13600k ( p and e cores ), you can try to switch your windows power plan to "High performance".
This might help.

[Yopen71]

Originally Posted by caphp

Hi Yopen71,
because you are using an i5-13600k ( p and e cores ), you can try to switch your windows power plan to "High performance".
This might help.

I can choose between only 2 plans balanced and economical win10 22H2.
With the help of Atak_Snajpera I managed to reach the full potential of my PC.
Many many Thanks!

[Atak_Snajpera]

Originally Posted by Yopen71

I can choose between only 2 plans balanced and economical win10 22H2.
With the help of Atak_Snajpera I managed to reach the full potential of my PC.
Many many Thanks!

Since you are encoding only on one machine I suggest these settings

Make sure that you put 0.0.0.0 in unused slots!



Then click on wrench icon and change priority from low to variable



With variable priority there is higher chance that both chunks will be encoded at the same time.

1) disable fast first pass option -you mean to encode in one pass cbr ?

uncheck USE FAST FIRST PASS IN 2-PASS MODE in Settings

[Yopen71]

Originally Posted by Atak_Snajpera

Since you are encoding only on one machine I suggest these settings

Make sure that you put 0.0.0.0 in unused slots!



Then click on wrench icon and change priority from low to variable



With variable priority there is higher chance that both chunks will be encoded at the same time.


uncheck USE FAST FIRST PASS IN 2-PASS MODE in Settings

Thanks again! Using exactly your steps. CPU now use it's full power



Edit: Second pass cpu lose 50%

With next movie I will try to activate server 3 and 4. Something strange happening,but it's not a big deal.


Edit2:
Problem with cpu solved. Using DE with 4 servers instead of 2 solve the problem.Great application! The only downside for me is, that I can't encode the audio stream separately from the video.I mean If I have to re-encode the audio stream I must to re-encode and the video stream again

[rlev11]

Just asking why you would want to encode the audio stream separately from the video? You can encode the audio stream to pretty much whatever you want when you do the whole video in ripbot. When you add the video, in the encoder settings window change the profile under audio from x.xcopy stream (leaves audio alone) to whatever you want. I do this to convert from dts to AC3.

if you need to do the audio separately for some other reason, suggest using mkvtoolnix gui to extract the audio, then run it through Audacity to convert it, then use mkvtoolnix gui to add the new audio back in with the video.

[Yopen71]

Originally Posted by rlev11

Just asking why you would want to encode the audio stream separately from the video? You can encode the audio stream to pretty much whatever you want when you do the whole video in ripbot. When you add the video, in the encoder settings window change the profile under audio from x.xcopy stream (leaves audio alone) to whatever you want. I do this to convert from dts to AC3.

if you need to do the audio separately for some other reason, suggest using mkvtoolnix gui to extract the audio, then run it through Audacity to convert it, then use mkvtoolnix gui to add the new audio back in with the video.

Of course, there have many tools to edit/encode audio Audacity,Sound Forge, foobar2000 etc. Actually there have different apps for every process in ripbot264, but one flexible program will be much better for me ,than jumping from app to app and to next app... It's just my opinion, nothing more. For example: someone has a large collection of movies with dts audio. And if he want just to replace thats dts to flac or ac3. And if ripbot264 has x.xcopy stream ( video ), will be just one click replacement for one movie instead of using mkv merge for extracting,then audacity for encoding, then back to mkv tool for muxing...

[Atak_Snajpera]

Originally Posted by Yopen71

Using DE with 4 servers instead of 2 solve the problem.

Still I does not look right that you need 4 x264 encoders running at the same time to fully saturate 14 core cpu(6p+8e). For example 16-core AMD CPUs do not have that problem. I'm pretty sure win11 would do much better in this matter. Clearly win10 scheduler is doing something stupid here.

[rlev11]

Originally Posted by Yopen71

Of course, there have many tools to edit/encode audio Audacity,Sound Forge, foobar2000 etc. Actually there have different apps for every process in ripbot264, but one flexible program will be much better for me ,than jumping from app to app and to next app... It's just my opinion, nothing more. For example: someone has a large collection of movies with dts audio. And if he want just to replace thats dts to flac or ac3. And if ripbot264 has x.xcopy stream ( video ), will be just one click replacement for one movie instead of using mkv merge for extracting,then audacity for encoding, then back to mkv tool for muxing...

Years ago I did a similar batch convert from dts to ac3. I put the videos in a folder and then ran this command from that folder and it did the audio convert and left the video alone. Went pretty fast if I remember. Not sure if the script would support other outputs, but it probably would. If I remember right, I setup different folders depending on the number of audio channels and then just changed the output size accordingly. so 6 channel left at 640k and 2 channel changed that to 256k. Re-did all the videos and added -Ac3 to the file name of the converted one. Then loaded up RenameMaster and batch removed the -AC3 from the filename.

FOR %%f IN (*.mkv) DO E:\ffmpeg\bin\ffmpeg.exe -i "%%f" -map 0 -vcodec copy -scodec copy -acodec ac3 -b:a 640k "%%~nf"-AC3.mkv

[Yopen71]

Originally Posted by Atak_Snajpera

Still I does not look right that you need 4 x264 encoders running at the same time to fully saturate 14 core cpu(6p+8e). For example 16-core AMD CPUs do not have that problem. I'm pretty sure win11 would do much better in this matter. Clearly win10 scheduler is doing something stupid here.

In my case:
when I use 2 servers: pass1 cpu at 100%, pass2 cpu at 46%
when I use 3 servers: 1 and 2 pass cpu at 100%
I use 4 servers, to be sure

[redeyes50]

hi, it has certainly been written but how do I set up automatic indexing with ffvideosurce instead LSMASHSource

[TDS]

Originally Posted by redeyes50

hi, it has certainly been written but how do I set up automatic indexing with ffvideosurce instead LSMASHSource

Congrats on your first post

Interesting that you don't want to use L-Smash.

There is a very new L-smash update, if you want to try that,

https://github.com/HomeOfAviSynthPlu...tag/1141.0.0.0

there is also a recent update for FFMS2 as well.

https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.p...52#post1991852


But if you want to use FFMS2 as your "decoder / indexer", then all you need to do is this :-

overwrite this field in RipBot264.ini if you want to use FFMS2 instead of L-Smash

[DefaultVideoDecoder]
MPEG-2=FFMS2
VC-1=FFMS2
AVC=FFMS2
HEVC=FFMS2
OTHER=FFMS2

Just a heads-up, if you change this, it will stay there until you do ANY other change to the settings in the GUI, and press the Apply button !!!

[redeyes50]

Now I have a problem I can't get 2 PCs to communicate on the same network. establishes the connection but immediately closes with an error. ripbtot264temp\job1\chuncks\5.cmd. does not exist!


therefore the connection is also successful but then it is unable to exploit the other CPU